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PWI: Urban Outfitters Smush

The other day I found that my grocery store has green olives stuffed with feta cheese, AND green olives stuffed with raw garlic, which I am now happily alternating. I thought about entitling this post “How to never be kissed again.”

I recently mentioned my random bottle-grab Smush as a dumb name for a color. But then it was on the surface, so here’s Urban Outfitters Smush:

Indoors, obv. This didn’t stay on long enough for a daytimeshot! Read on to find out why I have one weird green nail…

I was applying this, and I was thinking, “Seafoam, hm hm, seafoam… … didn’t I just do an Urban Outfitters seafoam color? Is this a PWI fail?”

So of course I looked in the box, and discovered that UO Girrl Like You is a green seafoam, not a blue seafoam. Silly me! Hence the accent nail, for comparison purposes.

I’ve a bit of a dilemma. Smush is a cool color, something I would like to have, but the formula is god-awful. It’s streaky, chalky, draggy and miserable. This is three coats, and the pinky still has a drag line; I chose the accent nail because the middle finger had the worst coverage. I did not enjoy playing with this polish, which is super unusual! Keep or ditch, keep or ditch? Either way it’s hall of shame.